Getting Ready for the LA Shoot

We’re pretty deep into the planning for the four day LA shoot now.  Susan has been emailing all the agents for the cast, establishing availability for the dates we want — and also looking for a good studio deal here in the Los Angeles area.  So far the only major snag has been that Paul [...]

The Shipping Saga Continues

After all of the issues and dramas – the good news is that our truck, generator, and container with all the camera equipment, are on US soil in Miami.  We’re now waiting for all of it to clear customs and hoping that will happen today.  I’ll post an update here as soon as we get [...]

Shipping Rage….No Other Word For It

As you know if you’ve been following this, we have been mounting an absurd SWAT-team all-out effort to get our items finally shipped off the island.  So finally today it was all coming together — three items (grip truck, generator, and container with all our other gear) were fully cleared by customs; we had Bills [...]

Lila’s Personal Behind the Scenes Pix Are Online Now

Lila Javan, our Director of Photography, has posted her behind the scenes snapshots (285 of them!) online. Here’s the link:
http://gallery.me.com/ljavan
Also, here are a few of the selects I downloaded from Lila’s collection, with some comments. (You can see the pic full sized by clicking on it.)

This one is part of a sequence where, at [...]

Our Stolen Generator Has Been Recovered

Okay, so there was another drama going on during wrap which I didn’t blog about because it was kind of sensitive but now that it has a happy ending, here it is. In the early morning hours (pre dawn) Friday morning, a few hours before we were transferring all our stuff to the docks for [...]

Phase 2 Begins — Back in Los Angeles

First of all thanks for all the emails and messages of encouragement….didn’t realize there were so many of you out there following this, and I appreciate the good words and thoughts that have come my way.
I arrived back in Los Angeles over the weekend and am now about to plunge back into the normal flow [...]

Putting It All In Perspective

As I write this, it’s Friday of wrap week and most of the crew are gone.  I’ve been doing some second unit filming while Susan Johnson, Angela Carroll, and my wife Rena have been heavily engaged in the wrap of the show — ensuring that final payments are going out to everyone and that things [...]

Wrapnote

We’re in “wrap” mode now — busy getting all of the crew and actors out of town and sorting through all the other aspects of finalization of the shoot:  getting wardwrobe packed and sent back to LA for the LA shooting days; getting Art Dept props and set dressing disposed of/stored; making payments to vendors [...]

It’s Official: First Unit Shooting is Bahamas-Wrapped

We wrapped the Bahamas 1st Unit shoot at 11AM this morning.  We will be doing more second unit this week — and then  on to do the LA scenes 4 weeks from now.   I will be adding some thoughts and perspective to this in the coming days.  Meanwhile — here are pix from this AM, [...]

Monday Morning — Last Day of 1st Unit Filming

It’s Monday morning now and I’m headed out for the last day of first unit filming in the Bahamas. Hard to believe we’ve made it to this.  It’s bittersweet — the crew is starting to leave and the wild energy of an indie film shoot is already starting to dissipate.  But I’m bone tired and [...]